2012 Bass Photos

  • pullintubes
    Posts: 56
    August 9, 2012 at 11:23 pm #1091177

    That’s one fat smallie! My biggest was 2 years ago on pool 2 mississippi. 22and 1/2″ 7lbs even!

    armchairdeity
    Phoenix, AZ, formerly from the NW 'Burbs, Minneapolis, MN, USA
    Posts: 1620
    August 17, 2012 at 5:35 am #1092821

    On Weds I had a chance to take my friend Sam out fishing. It was a really nice day and we were planning to both fish AND take my new motor for a spin on the pontoon. So we left home around 7 and made it to the water by 8. Sam is a bass fisherman in his normal environment (Montana, believe it or not), so we had smallies, largemouth and (for me) catfish on our minds.

    It was a really slow morning, which was OK since with the front that had just moved through we had low expectations. We took the boat thru her paces and she clocked out at just under 25 MPH at WOT, but it’s a brand-new rebuild on the motor, so I wasn’t really pushing it. We poked around on Pool 2 for a few hours, knowing we had to head back to the landing at 1:30PM because I had an afternoon engagement.

    Long story short, by about 12:50 we’d resigned ourselves to heading home with nothing to show for our efforts. Granted P2 is catch-and-release-only for smallies, but we were thinking that SOME pics would be nice. We’d tried cut and live suckers, fatheads, crawlers, spoons and cranks… nothing.

    Last-ditch effort, I reached into the tackle box and grabbed the only Senko-like plastic I had… the pictured Mr. Twister worms. VERY old. They’d been in there for years. The only hooks I had along other than circles were smoke-chrome and red Gamakatsu kahle hooks. So, knowing that bass love red, I grabbed the red one, tied it onto the line, stuck it thru the middle of the plastic and handed it to Sam. “Here,” I said, “try this.”

    Toss.

    Drift.

    Weed. No… wait…

    FISH!

    It wasn’t more than 45 seconds and we had the first smallie in the boat. A respectable 2#+ fish that fought like a heavyweight champion.

    Once we had that one boated, photographed and released he smiles and me and says “Here, your turn”.

    Toss.

    Drift.

    BAM!

    Less than 20 seconds. Another one. This one 1#13.

    And then it was time to go. So we stowed the gear and weighed anchor, happy to know that our little adventure had ended with us both at 1 for 1 and even (at least in count)… the weather was perfect, the boat ran like a champ.

    All it all it was a perfect day.



    crawdaddy
    St. Paul MN
    Posts: 1552
    August 19, 2012 at 5:16 am #1093135

    Quote:

    That’s one fat smallie! My biggest was 2 years ago on pool 2 mississippi. 22and 1/2″ 7lbs even!

    What time of year and what bait did you catch him on?

    stuart
    Mn.
    Posts: 3682
    August 23, 2012 at 12:40 am #1094224

    19 inch from Mille lacs.Today they only wanted purple senkos for us.

    mplspug
    Palmetto, Florida
    Posts: 25026
    August 25, 2012 at 2:16 pm #1094766

    Quote:

    Had a nice little day on July 3rd. Within 30 minutes, I stuck this 20″ followed by twin 19″. Swim jig, Pop-R, Senko!


    Wow, I missed this one. That a nice fish! Kind of looks like my spot on Waconia.

    mplspug
    Palmetto, Florida
    Posts: 25026
    August 25, 2012 at 2:17 pm #1094767

    Quote:

    19 inch from Mille lacs.Today they only wanted purple senkos for us.


    Yeah, about those white bass and shovelnose, can we change the trip to smallies on Mille Lacs?

    stillakid2
    Roberts, WI
    Posts: 4603
    August 27, 2012 at 5:31 pm #1095099

    Here’s a grand speciman that my dad caught a week ago. 20.25″ momma!

    keepcasting
    Excelsior
    Posts: 445
    August 28, 2012 at 6:03 pm #1095353

    That is a tank smallie…way to go!

    Joel Ballweg
    Sauk City, Wisconsin
    Posts: 3295
    September 6, 2012 at 5:06 pm #1096974

    I’m not a bass fishermen by any means but every once in awhile I will actually target smallies.
    Caught this one on the Turtle Flambeau Flowage over the Labor Day weekend.

    stillakid2
    Roberts, WI
    Posts: 4603
    September 7, 2012 at 2:50 am #1097118

    Turtle-Flambeau = Smallmouth Heaven! Nice fish!

    stillakid2
    Roberts, WI
    Posts: 4603
    October 12, 2012 at 10:09 pm #1104920

    I did it! I beat dad!!!! 20.5″ Smalley on a Smithwick Rattlin’ Rogue! I’d tell you it was pink head on white with pink belly but that color’s been discontinued. That’s two fish producing patterns that they’ve had that are no longer available! I hate when they do that because it makes me afraid of losing the one I have! This lure has been the #1 fish producer in the boat so far this fall. For all I know, it’ll be a worthless choice next year! It does make me wish I had one in a suspending model though.

    stuart
    Mn.
    Posts: 3682
    October 23, 2012 at 8:19 pm #1106954

    A few late fall toads from Mille Lacs.



    bigefish
    Rock Falls, WI.
    Posts: 242
    October 25, 2012 at 10:22 pm #1107646

    Nice fall smallie out of pool 5 at Alma.
    Caught with bfishn paddletail.

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